Adam Hodge

Managing Director @BPIMedia & @BloombergTV Contributor. Former @NSC_Spox, @USTRSpox @USTreasury & @TheDemocrats. Husband. Dad. Cruzan.

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

“WHEN WE DO WIN!”

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Eberechi Eze last month: “I’m not too interested in what people think & how they feel about us winning. WHEN we do win, it will be down to everyone else to deal with that.” 🔮🏆

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

Bill Pulte is a second rate political hack.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump housing director Bill Pulte: "I do believe that Lisa Cook will eventually be indicted, and if she is, that would give the ability to fire her for cause"

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

The illegal "Desantis Dummymander" in Florida could very well come back to bite Republicans and help Dems win an even bigger majority in November.

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

Amazing how fast the US has swung from hyping the "trillions" it was going to get from the oil sheiks and Asia ... to talking about providing those same countries with billions in bailouts (swaps ... )

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[Adam Hodge @hodge]

This right here is critical.

[Kelly Grieco @ka_grieco]

10/ The throughline across all of this: the Pentagon is presenting outputs, not outcomes. Facilities struck, percentages degraded. The operational questions (what can Iran still do, where, at what altitude, and how fast can it reconstitute) remain largely unanswered.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.

[Larry Kudlow @larry_kudlow]

WSJ posting Iran's 10 points, from Nour News.

#2 Continuation of Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz.

#3 Acceptance that Iran can enrich uranium for its nuclear program.

Is this what we want?

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

Meanwhile:

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

He wasn’t wearing a hat?

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Why is this night different from all other nights? It's not. Trump didn't say in his speech anything he didn't say over the last several days

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Iran has more uranium at higher levels of enrichment because Trump tore up the 2015 nuclear agreement! Had we stayed in the JCPOA, they would not have it today.

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

The only difference between Trump’s speech tonight and the video he released 32 days ago? He wasn’t wearing that goofy hat and gas is $4.06 per gallon.

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

Great wide-ranging convo w/ @daniburgz on @BloombergTV about the latest developments in Iran and the political fallout here at home. https://t.co/tuig85YADf

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

Duke collapses ALMOST as great as Carolina wins.

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

DEFINITELY NOT!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: For 40 years, Duke has been college basketball’s most polarizing team. People love to hate Duke.

But has Duke basketball become less hateable? Perhaps, maybe, even likable? https://t.co/Z2jcL2ANjA

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

The stupidity of this war and open flailing of the Trump administration to deal with the fallout on full display.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on Iran, including permiting the sale of Iranian crude and refined products into the United States.

Scott Bessent calls it a "narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea."

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

And now Trump is easing sanctions on Russia, further rewarding Iran’s main allies at the expense of America’s interests and Ukraine’s safety.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the straits of hormuz aren’t completely closed.

iranian tankers are still passing through—bringing oil to china and oil revenue to the islamic republic.

the united states could stop them. but that would antagonize china and further escalate the war. so…here we are.

[Adam Hodge @hodge]

Hope is a really bad strategy.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

https://t.co/dgNukmCUA9

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

VIDEO EXPLAINER: The most important map of the Third Gulf War — the oilfields, the Strait of Hormuz, and the bypass pipelines.

Plus a look at how, two weeks into the war, Iran is still exporting lots of its oil, and most of it, via the strait.

@opinion

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

@brhodes @nagy_minaj Still up: